Chair Show

125 Newbury presents CHAIR SHOW, opening April 17 and running through May 23, a group exhibition that examines the chair as receptacle, object, and idea. The exhibition brings together chairs that are utilitarian, chairs transformed into the subject of art, and artworks that deal with chair-ness itself. Ranging from objects that bridge the gap between furniture and sculpture to representations of chairs in painting, drawing, and photography, CHAIR SHOW celebrates the chair as both fantasy and fact, but most of all as subject. The exhibition includes works by Gertrude Abercrombie, José Bento, Dike Blair, David Byrne, Jim Dine, Urs Fischer, Hugh Hayden, Donald Judd, Alicja Kwade, Bob Law, Robert Longo, René Magritte, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, André Masson, Louise Nevelson, Adam Pendleton, Ryan Preciado, Robert Rauschenberg, Lucas Samaras, Julian Schnabel, Joel Shapiro, Arlene Shechet, Kiki Smith, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, and Robert Wilson.